SAPS Capt Kevein Marallich, of the crime-intelligence unit in Eshowe, was shot dead and fiancee Cathy Potgieter was severely assaulted while the off-duty cop was fishing at a rural dam near Nyoni, 30km north of Stanger on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast on Sunday-afternoon.

SAPS superintendent Jay Naicker said the couple had been fishing at a farm dam near Nyoni, 30 km north of Stanger (KwaDukuza) when they were confronted by two black men, one armed with a high calibre pistol. Capt. Marallich was immediately shot in the face, killing him at the scene - and Potgieter was severely assaulted and was found by farm workers floating in the dam. Netcare spokesperson Jeff Wicks said Ms Potgieter was in a critical condition in Umhlanga hospital. Both were from Eshowe and Marallich worked for the police's crime intelligence unit in Eshowe. – Sapahttp://www.themercury.co.za/?fSectionId=&fArticleId=nw20100830080417495C732236

Pietermaritzburg – Aug 29 2010 – The Witness reports that a wildlife lodge supervisor’s throat was cut and her policeman husband was stabbed with the same knife at their game-reserve homestead at Msinsi Game Reserve, Albert Falls Dam, in the early hours of Saturday.

Mrs Erica Croeser, 32, had her throat slit with a knife that was also used to stab her 34-year-old husband, Constable Morné Croeser of the SAPS dog unit, in the stomach . When paramedics arrived they found the knife still lodged in his stomach.

The scene was described as “very, very gory” and the 300 fishermen-guests who were at the lodge for the annual bass-fishing tournament were shocked and horrified. Erica had been working at Albert Falls as a tourism assistant for 10 years. It is believed that the couple had just arrived home when they were attacked. A source said that while Morné parked the car, Erica went to open the front door of their house. Two armed men were waiting in ambush and pounced on her. The couple’s two young daughters, aged 6 and 10, were staying with their grandmother at the time of the attack.

Gunshot Distraught neighbour Hlekisile Nkala told The Witness that she heard a gunshot just after 02:00, and about 10 minutes later she heard a male voice screaming for help. She quickly woke her husband and called the police. An employee at the reserve said the incident had shocked the more than 300 participants staying there for the annual bass fishing tournament, which started on Friday. “The customers have also expressed shock and fear over the gruesome murder. They keep asking if the murder really happened and if it was that gruesome,” said an employee. “Since the murder attack we have increased the number of security guards from two to four. We are also looking at more ways of increasing the security,” said Msinsi Holdings marketing manager Ray Naguran.

SAPS spokeswoman Joey Jeevan said Morné Croeser was in a serious but stable condition in hospital on Sunday. She said when paramedics arrived at the scene with police, the knife used to stab him was still lodged in his abdomen. “Paramedics removed the knife and put up a drip and treated him before he was taken to hospital.” Jeevan said no arrests had been made, adding that nothing seemed to be stolen. “At this stage police believe that this is linked to a labour dispute. She was a supervisor, and responsible for hiring and firing.” Mrs Croeser’s mother Francoisana Schafer said the family are coping with “the sad story”, but was unable to comment any further. - Stephanie Saville and Bongani Hans, The Witness http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Womans-throat-slit-in-nature-reserve-20100829http://www.msinsi.co.za/albert-falls-dam.php

2010-08-30 Jana van der Merwe and Lynda Greyling report in Volksblad newspaper that a well-known Afrikaner politician, Dirk Odendaal, 80, was attacked with his wife Sophia, 70 upon their return from church to their farm Verdun near Meets, Bethlehem, Free State. Mr Odendaal was an ex-member of the provincial council (MPC) for Harrismith and ex-director of the Drakensberg Cooperative and of Sentraboer. He also was the chairman of the Afrikaans cultural organisation Rapportryers in Bethlehem.

Both were ambushed by three black men with balaclavas just outside their homestead at noon. Mr Odendaal was viciously assaulted with a tyre-iron, his wife was beaten black and blue and her nose was broken. The attackers tore her earrings from her earlobes. Their daughter Mrs Rianza van Huyssteen said the man first first her mother to open the house. “One beat her through the face with a loaf of bread they’d bought enroute from the church and she fell over a wall while a knife was held at her throat. Mr Odendaal rushed in when he heard her screams and was beaten by the tyre-iron. He suffered serious leg injuries. The men forced him to open their registered gun-safe and stole a 6.45 pistol. There was no money in the safe. However they beat up the elderly politician until he gave them all the money the couple could find in the house, about R6,000. The couple then was locked into the large cooling-room outside the homestead and fled with the couple’s Bantam bakkie.

Roux’s credit card was used at a McDonalds outlet by an unknown person - some 30 – 60 minutes after the Afrikaner rugbyplayer was already in SAPS custody…

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August 31 2010. PRETORIA Magistrate’s Court. Blue Bulls rugby player Bees Roux, who was arrested on suspicion of murder, may have been defending himself from an armed robbery instead – according to testimony during his bail application. He was granted R100,000 bail and ordered to appear in the same court on 15 October.

“Die Beeld” newspaper writes that the arrested Blue Bulls rugby player Bees Roux's credit card was used by an unknown person at a McDonald’s outlet – at least 30 to 60 minutes after he was already officially booked in by the SAPS and placed in custody.

Roux paid R100,000 bail and was released on Friday after the death of Mohale. His legal counsel Rudi Krause told the Pretoria magistrate's court at the bail-application hearing that Roux's credit-card was used at 02:31 at a McDonalds - between 30 to 60 minutes after he was already placed in police custody.

USUAL RACE CARD PLAYED BY DEMONSTRATORS:

Picture: some 40 demonstrators protested outside the court room against Roux’s bail – playing the race-card. The evidence at the bail application showed that Roux may however have been targetted for a robbery instead…

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Investigating officer SAPS sergeant Patrick Mafanel also testified that the 'circumstances surrounding the incident remain unclear'. "We know that Mohale was on duty with two colleagues and pulled over Roux on the corner of Schoeman- and Festival Street, claiming he was drunk,' testified Mafanel.

(Note: It is a legal requirement that before a person can be arrested for drunk-driving, they must be breathalysed at the road-block.)

Mafanel: "Mohale told his colleagues at the roadblock that he would drive Roux's car 'because Roux was drunk'. However we don't know why his colleagues then did not follow him, and why they didn't see the assault either.'

The defence council submitted to the court that there are 'many unanswered questions about the incident.' "Why didn't Mohale's colleagues follow him and arrest Roux for drunk-driving?" "Why did Mohale drive in the opposite direction of the nearest police stations - Brooklyn and Sunnyside? - but drove towards Roux's house instead?

Mafanel also testified that Mohale's two colleagues did not submit any statements after the 'incident' because they didn't actually see what had happened.

Roux also said in a statement read out by his defence council that the 'was not a flight risk, that he has thus far done everything in his power to assist the SAPS with their investigation: and "I have no desire to live like a fugitive…’ His council said Roux would plead not guilty to the charge of 'murder' and submitted that Roux was a tax-paying citizen with a permanent address, and earning R850,000 a year.

Chief-magistrate Desmond Nair, who also commented that the 'circumstances were strange,' granted R100,000 bail, which was paid and Roux was released.

Emotions ran high inside and outside the courtroom, with some 40 demonstrators holding up placards opposing bail, and 50 metro-cops inside and outside the court room. After lunch the SAPS tactical-reaction unit entered the courtroom to maintain the peace and protect the family and friends of the accused man. Roux's parents Phillip and Yvonne and his girlfriend Ms Carien du Toit also attended the proceedings. AFacebook page supporting Roux has been launched by his friends.

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The family have declined to speak to the news media at the moment as the case is sub-judice. Roux's sports-agent James Adams told the media after he was granted bail that the rugby-player wanted to thank his friends, family and legal council for 'helping him through this difficult time'.

The legal rules for cops arresting a drunk-driving suspect:

Die Burger obtained information about the usual procedures for the metropolitican police (in the Western Cape) when arresting someone for 'drunk-driving' is to take them to the nearest police station inside an official police vehicle – but not before it has been confirmed with a blood-alcohol test that the person was actually above the legal limit. Metropolice spokesman Nowellen Petersen said 'no member of the SAPS or the metropolice can take any arrested person inside that person's own vehicle to a police station.' Moreover, that arrested person's blood-alcohol levels have to be tested first on the scene before the arrest. "If there is a passenger in the vehicle with a legal driver's licence and whose blood-alcohol-levels are beneath the legal limit, the passenger would be allowed to drive the vehicle instead. "The person who was arrested can also contact someone else to come and fetch the vehicle. Only if there is no-one else available to remove the vehicle from the road-block, a member of the traffic police or the SAPS can drive the car to the nearest police-station, where it will be booked in, and its keys put in a safe until someone fetches the car.' http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/Wiet-sy-kaart-gehad-20100830

Pietermaritzburg – Aug 29 2010 – The Witness reports that a wildlife lodge supervisor’s throat was cut and her policeman husband was stabbed with the same knife at their game-reserve homestead at Msinsi Game Reserve, Albert Falls Dam, in the early hours of Saturday.

Mrs Erica Croeser, 32, had her throat slit with a knife that was also used to stab her 34-year-old husband, Constable Morné Croeser of the SAPS dog unit, in the stomach . When paramedics arrived they found the knife still lodged in his stomach.

The scene was described as “very, very gory” and the 300 fishermen-guests who were at the lodge for the annual bass-fishing tournament were shocked and horrified. Erica had been working at Albert Falls as a tourism assistant for 10 years. It is believed that the couple had just arrived home when they were attacked. A source said that while Morné parked the car, Erica went to open the front door of their house. Two armed men were waiting in ambush and pounced on her. The couple’s two young daughters, aged 6 and 10, were staying with their grandmother at the time of the attack.

Gunshot Distraught neighbour Hlekisile Nkala told The Witness that she heard a gunshot just after 02:00, and about 10 minutes later she heard a male voice screaming for help. She quickly woke her husband and called the police. An employee at the reserve said the incident had shocked the more than 300 participants staying there for the annual bass fishing tournament, which started on Friday. “The customers have also expressed shock and fear over the gruesome murder. They keep asking if the murder really happened and if it was that gruesome,” said an employee. “Since the murder attack we have increased the number of security guards from two to four. We are also looking at more ways of increasing the security,” said Msinsi Holdings marketing manager Ray Naguran.

SAPS spokeswoman Joey Jeevan said Morné Croeser was in a serious but stable condition in hospital on Sunday. She said when paramedics arrived at the scene with police, the knife used to stab him was still lodged in his abdomen. “Paramedics removed the knife and put up a drip and treated him before he was taken to hospital.” Jeevan said no arrests had been made, adding that nothing seemed to be stolen. “At this stage police believe that this is linked to a labour dispute. She was a supervisor, and responsible for hiring and firing.” Mrs Croeser’s mother Francoisana Schafer said the family are coping with “the sad story”, but was unable to comment any further. - Stephanie Saville and Bongani Hans, The Witness http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Womans-throat-slit-in-nature-reserve-20100829http://www.msinsi.co.za/albert-falls-dam.php

August 30 2010 -- South Africa’s 3-million Afrikaners are in increasingly desperate straits, with nearly one-third now living in dismal squatter camps where they are denied government benefits, food-aid and denied access to medical care and the job market…

Solidarity trade union’s charity Helping Hand said in a recent letter to SA President Jacob Zuma that without government subsidies and food-aid, many Afrikaners will start dying of starvation and poverty-related diseases. Reports of babies and elderly Afrikaners dying of malnutrition are increasingly common this year. Solidarity’s letter also includes a series of pictures taken of some of the more than 650,000 homeless, impoverished Afrikaners. ( We publish some of those pictures below. )

There also is growing interest from abroad in the growing ‘poor white’ problem. Dutch investigative journalist Saskia Vredeveld and Australian photo-journalist Dean Saffron both were only the latest of a growing number of foreign journalists who reported extensively from the Afrikaner-poor camps this year.

And this month, a group of Dutch and Flemish students also visited the Eagle’ s Nest-squatter camp in Pretoria North. They visited the camp with its 100 poor residents and played a traditional Afrikaner sport called “Jukskei’ with the residents as part of the Dutch-South African Society youth-exchange programme. Dr Danie Langner, executive director of Helping Hand, said it was ‘very important for (foreign) students to be exposed to all the realities in South Africa, including the large number of Afrikaners who are now falling into permanent poverty and destitution. The students experienced at first hand the reality of the (more than 650,000) Afrikaners who have to survive without water, electricity or food-supplies each day. This squatter camp’s hundred residents live in horrific circumstances in which they are exposed to the elements each day”. The three-week visit by the Dutch-speaking students was sponsored by four universities, the Afrikaner League, the Afrikaans Language- and Cultural society, the Federation of Afrikaans Cultural Associations, Solidarity and the Foundation for the Empowerment of Afrikaans.http://www.zuidafrikahuis.nl/node/28

Above: Sarie Rossouw lives with her husband Hennie in a Pretoria squatter camp and is badly malnourished. She has only been visited once by a social worker this past year. Her husband Hennie, 70, tries to look after her as well as he can, but it’s difficult without daily health-care and no regular food supplies.

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Sixty-three percent of the residents in Pretoria’s 77 white squatter camps and tent-towns alone, are older than 60 years. There is only one social worker for every 4,000 South African resident. A total of 2,100 cases of dire poverty amongst whites are currently being investigated in the town Centurion by its Council for the Elderly. In Pretoria, an average 1,000 cases are reported of whites being abused and left uncared, in dismal conditions. Yet the government’s National Youth Development Agency (the former Umsobomvu Youth Fund) still rules that disability benefits are not granted to such impoverished, elderly Afrikaners. The government’s social-welfare agencies also refuse to dispense food-stamps to destitute Afrikaners.

Above: these squatter huts are occupied by whites and are now seen all over the country, writes Solidarity to pres. Jacob Zuma. “Serious health problems are caused by the lack of water- and sanitation-services.’

Jurie and Susan Austin live in a 2 X 2 m square pump-house and beg on the streets to survive each day.

On the same day when the country was plunged into widespread chaos and incredible acts of cruelty by striking ‘civil servants’, SA President Jacob Zuma was welcomed at the Beijing International Airport in the People’s Republic of China Picture:GCIS/SAPA

It is a countrywide pattern, striking civil servants arrive in organised groups, arrive at the school gates of many Afrikaans-language primary- and high-schools, and try to break them down and overrun the schools, terrifying the children out of their wits. At most besieged schools, the parents were prepared and organised self-defence units – and fists were flying, tempers were fraying while the parents were shoved around and the children were hiding in classrooms, frightened by all the violence and aggression. At the Verwoerd Primary School in Parys, Free State, above, the local SAPS was called in to stop the strikers from assaulting the parents.

CIVIL SERVANTS CALL FOR GENOCIDE OF ALL WHITE BABIES:

Picture above: the man circled - photographed amongst striking civil servants at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital on August 24, 2010 (importantly, standing just behind the woman holding a printed poster depicting a white baby-foot and the slogan “WE DON’T CARE” )– bears an amazingly close resemblance to Mfundo Dlungwane, (below right, seated behind his government desk). It was Dlungwane who, on May 25 2010 on Facebook, joined comrade Ncebo Sodo – a Safmarine employee in Port Elizabeth - into coining a new protest slogan: “ONE BULLET – ONE WHITE INFANT”, with Dlungwane writing: “We have no choice but to kill the white babies, simply because they are going to grow and oppress our babies, so we kill the white babies. When the right time comes we’ll chop their heads off and they become headless little racists.’ http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2010/08/black-racist-threats-to-kill-whites.html

BELOW: MEET THE OTHER CIVIL SERVANT WHO COINED THE SLOGAN ‘ONE BULLET – ONE WHITE INFANT”

“August 28 2010 - “In 2008, xenophobic attacks broke out across over South Africa, starting in the town of Alexandria on May 12.(2) Although the country has struggled with xenophobia throughout its history, this event shook both South Africans and the international scene. After the end of apartheid in the 1990s and the new era of a multicultural society living in peaceful coexistence, this type of open conflict based on ethnic belongings rocked the image of a new South Africa. Some commentators have even gone as far as to claim that "South Africans, post-apartheid, have developed an aggressive and chauvinistic nationalism."(3)

The looming threat of xenophobia persists, and reports have been received of foreign nationals being threatened by violence after the soccer world cup in June 2010.(4) On 20 July 2010, foreign nationals were attacked in Kya Sands, Johannesburg.(5) These attacks were said to be motivated by xenophobia.(6) Looking at the wave of attacks that took place in 2008 and events of July 2010, it is necessary for the Government to act to avoid similar attacks in the future.

Xenophobia is often defined as "an unreasonable fear, distrust, or hatred of strangers, foreigners, or anything perceived as foreign or different."(7)

When discussing xenophobia in South Africa, it is important to bring in the concept of ethnicity. "Ethnicity is an aspect of social relationship between agents who consider themselves as culturally distinctive from members of other groups with whom they have a minimum of regular interaction."(8)

In other words it is a social relationship that does not require regular interaction or people knowing each other. What they need to know is that they come from the same social group and that this social group is distinct from the ‘others'. This ethnic group is able to socially construct a distinct identity based on shared memories and myths, a common shared history that sets them apart from ‘others'. The ethnic identity becomes an ‘imagined community'.(9) It is the emotions combined with shared memories and myths that make ethnicity, and thus xenophobia such powerful instruments. In the case of xenophobia in South Africa, ethnicity is used as a marker to scapegoat certain groups for the problems found in struggling areas.

Xenophobia is in many cases linked to conflict. It is linked to the sense that ethnicity is used as a marker to target groups who are blamed for the problems in a given society. It thus becomes xenophobia, as it is the ethnicity of the group that the locals fear will damage their future of a better life. The following quote gives an indication of how xenophobia, ethnicity and conflict are linked:

Ethnic conflict is not caused directly by inter-group differences, "ancient hatreds" and centuries-old feuds, or the stresses of modern life within a global economy, nor were ethnic passions, long bottled up by repressive communist regimes, simply uncorked by the end of the Cold War.

We argue instead that intense ethnic conflict is most often caused by collective fears of the future. As groups begin to fear for their safety, dangerous and difficult-to-resolve strategic dilemmas arise that contain within them the potential for tremendous violence.(10)

In the case of South Africa, the link between xenophobia and conflict is the collective fear of a struggling local population for the future, as revealed in the work of Lake and Rothschild.(11)

The country is struggling with a high level of unemployment and this, combined with a high influx of refugees and migrant workers, will often lead to disturbances amongst the local population who are at a low income level.(12)

Unemployment at 25.2%

In South Africa, the effect of this becomes dramatic as the job market is strained, with official numbers indicating unemployment to be at 25.2% in the 1st quarter of 2010.(13) The foreigners thus become an easy target for problems within society, such as high unemployment. They become competitors in an already struggling economic system. The Government in South Africa has not done much to stop these allegations; instead they have used them as a way of shifting blame from its own failure to address the causes for the social stress.(14) If the threat of xenophobic-related violence and stigma is not dealt with, the consequences may be grave.

Xenophobia in South Africa

In May 2008, local residents in working class areas throughout South Africa attacked foreign black workers due to xenophobia.(15) Studies done by the Consortium for Migrants and Refugees in South Africa in 2009 found that the foreigners were still under threat of violence and that little was done to address the causes of the attacks.(16) A similar wave of violence has not been seen since 2008, but a threat of future attacks still exists. Foreigners, and shop owners in particular, are still being threatened and beaten.(17)

After the soccer world cup of June 2010, reports have been received of foreign nationals being threatened by violence.(18) On 20 July 2010, 16 people, most of them foreign nationals, were attacked in Kya Sands, Johannesburg.(19) After the attacks, the army was deployed to the area, despite Gauteng Provincial Community Safety Minister Khabisi Mosunkutu declaring they were not needed. The attacks ranged from assault and house breaking to theft, which ended in five people being taken to hospital.(20) No incidents have been reported since the attacks in Kya Sands, but the situation is being monitored closely.

The problem with the threats of xenophobic attacks and the attacks in Kya Sands is that they come from different groups in South Africa.(21)

This is a problem as it showcases how society in general is convinced that the foreigners are to blame for all social stress found in South Africa. To make matters worse, several of the people making the threats believe they have the support of senior political leaders and thus making it socially and politically acceptable.(22)

This is evidence of a society that is not taking the consequences of this situation seriously and that it is damaging towards the international reputation of the country. Even more grave, however, is the neglect of facing the root causes of the social stress. By blaming the foreigners for all the problems, the real causes are not dealt with and thus the problems will not be solved.

Patrick Bond argued that "Allowing immigrants to be blamed for crime and joblessness is a ‘scapegoat' strategy for the government's failure to address root causes of the social stress from mass unemployment and housing shortages."(23)

A problem in South African society and politics is the accusation that the immigrants are to blame for the economic situation, the high level of unemployment and other problems facing struggling communities.(24) Since the violent xenophobic attacks in May 2008, little has been done to find the cause for the attacks and even less has been done to ensure it will not happen again.(25) If the Government and civil society do not take the situation seriously, there is no guarantee it will not happen again. If the situation is not dealt with it may continue to harm tourism, the country's international reputation and geopolitical interests.

The real issue that needs to be addressed is that of social stress - at a Governmental, regional and local level. Blaming all the ills on foreigners will not solve unemployment and crime levels. Instead the root causes must be identified and adequately addressed. Until then, the looming threat of xenophobia still threatens South Africa, and incidents such as the one in Kya Sands may escalate and spread across the country.

August 28 2010 - Dear Ms Storø - As a retired Sunday Times of Johannesburg journalist, I have had oceans of time and thus have been monitoring the SA facebook pages on the subject of xenophobia - which you seem to interpret primarily as black South African ethnic groups targetting black foreign African ethnic groups.However it has probably escaped your attention that there is an overwhelming amount of hatespeech and calls to kill all the whites in South Africa on the Facebook pages of groups like Blackwash, the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania, the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA), the ANC and similar political groups. This is really getting way out of hand in fact and is also being followed up by direct action: a group of people in South Africa started monitoring the attacks on 'whites' from May 1 2010 just before the start of the World Cup 2010, and recorded an unprecedented number of often very cruel armed attacks - way out of proportion to their very small representation in the South African population. http://www.farmitracker.com/reports

I also have for many years maintained a name-list of murdered white agrarians and smallholders in South Africa. Initially I kept a log in my car when working for the Sunday Times because I was often sent out to report on farm-attacks, and in the time before the internet it was essential to carry such statistics along when writing a story about it. I continued this log in retirement mainly because the South African Police Service stopped maintaining a 'stand-alone' list of these so-named 'farm-attacks' nor are they maintaining seperate lists of any of the deaths caused by xenophobic attacks. ( http://www.saps.gov.za click on documents for the stats)

The death toll thus far on South African farms up to August 25 2010: 3,702 people. That does not include the large number of black female tribal land-owners who are murdered, usually torched to death with their female relatives, whenever they insist on occupying their inherited tribal land-sites. I maintain a seperate list of these female farm-murder victims on the same page because the modus-operandus of the farm-attacks is identical: white farmers are also often torched or mutilated and tortured extensively, just as these black-female farm victims are. My latest list of names: http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2010/08/farm-murder-death-list-1994-2010_26.html

The international community lately is also taking note of these extraordinarily cruel murders of 'whites' (the vast majority of the attack-victims are Afrikaans-speaking whites) on farms and smallholdings, with the Unrepresented Nations and People's Organisation in The Hague recently issuing a call for an international investigation.

Dr Gregory Stanton, founder of Genocide Watch, was also interviewed on TV, warned about what Stanton, who is a liberal academic in the USA who was a foreign monitor of the SA elections in 1994, referred to as an 'approaching Boer Genocide':

Perhaps with so many foreign experts now also growing increasingly concerned about the xenophobic attacks but also over the growing threats of a 'white genocide' in South Africa - together with the massive increase in hatespeech targetting whites in South Africa, you might also want to include these events in your area of expertise to present a more holistic of all of SA society?

It's truly alarming to me that at the Steve Biko Hospital last week, a striking health-worker was carrying a printed poster produced by the POPCRU trade union, showing a picture of a white baby's foot, and underneath it: "We don't care'. The man behind her bears a striking resemblance to Mr Mfundo Dlungwane, a public servant who helped coin the new slogan “One Bullet One White Infant” – and writing on 25 May 2010 on Facebook:

This growing hatespeech also has a particularly powerful effect on the Afrikaner community in South Africa - and they are becoming increasingly suspicious of the ANC-leadership 's intentions and many Afrikaans communities are also beginning to distrust the SA Police Service - while this community has always been very law-abiding due to their Calvinist background.

Rapid impoverishment of more than 650,000 of the 3-m Afrikaners leads to massive resentment:

Leading Afrikaners now often refer to themselves as having become 'strangers' in 'their own land'. Their rapid impoverishment due to their being barred from the job-market under the BEE-laws also leads to massive resentment of their present situation: more than 650,000 of the 3-million Afrikaners now are homeless and living in often very unsafe, little tented squatter-camps; and these 'poor whites' are moreover, very consistently refused access to any government benefits to help them survive, including government food-stamps and public housing. Only two private charities in South Africa help them with daily food aid: the Freedom Front Plus' charity Volkshulp 2000, and the Solidarity Trade Union's Helpende Hand (http://www.helpinghand.co.za) charity, which has more than 600 branches run by unpaid volunteers countrywide to help these poor Afrikaner families. Their living conditions are incredibly dismal.

I thought it may interest you to know just a few of these details of 'that other kind of xenophobia' and the causes for it.

Conclusion:

To me it seems inevitable that, with the extremely poor and weak leadership right now, South Africa is heading for a full-scale race-war with impoverished communities of all ethnic groups battling each other for scarce resources: especially the clean-water supplies which now all are becoming very polluted with heavy-metals, mine and industrial waste-chemicals and human waste mainly due to the ANC-regime's fraudulent rule and inefficiency, but also for (increasingly expensive) food, the shrinking number of jobs and housing. This week alone, the agricultural sector announced the loss of 61,000 unskilled jobs last year: the few remaining commercial farmers (no more than 20,000: there were 85,000 in 1994) are mechanising fast now -- in order to keep up with the growing demand for local staple-foods.

August 24 2010 – PRETORIA. POPCRU trade unionists who were blocking the entrances to the Steve Biko Academic Hospital; barring doctors and nurses from attending to even the most critically-ill patients such as newborn infants and women in labour, carried these placards: the ‘health worker’ on the left holds her preprinted Popcru-trade union placard displaying a white infant’s foot and a mother’s hand – with underneath the words: “We don’t care”.

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Meet the two male civil servants who coined the slogan: “One Bullet, One White Infant”

Four months earlier, on May 25 2010, on Facebook’s pages of amongst others, the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania, APLA, Blackwash and their members, two SA civil servants called Mfundo Dlungwane and Nceba, Sodo, also coined a new slogan: “One Bullet, one white infant’: with Dlungwane writing to Sodo: “We have no choice but to kill the white babies, simply because they are going to grow and oppress our babies, so we kill the white babies. When the right time comes we’ll chop their heads off and they become headless little racists.’

The demonstrating man on August 24 2010 above, bears a striking resemblance to MFUNDO DLUNGWANE below: one of two men who coined the slogan “One Bullet, One White Infant”… in May 2010… and who wrote:

“We have no choice but to kill the white babies, simply because they are going to grow and oppress our babies, so we kill the white babies. When the right time comes we’ll chop their heads off and they become headless little racists.

He was corresponding with SODO NCEBA, an employee at SAFMARINE in Port Elizabeth, below:

Above: Nceba, Sodo – Safmarine employee, Port Elizabeth, “One bullet – one white infant” - “What can we do to protect our black babies from these future oppressors and racists? “ (exchanging comments with: )Mfundo Dlungwane: (original Facebook page below). Reply: “We have no choice but to kill the white babies, simply because they are going to grow and oppress our babies, so we kill the white babies. When the right time comes we’ll chop their heads off and they become headless little racists.’

(Note: even though some of these original pages may have been removed since that time- one can still Google their names and find these originals back on Google’s ghost pages.)

Manzi, Lindo “If I can meet a white person in the street where there is no-one to witness, fuck I would killl the dog…’

HOSSAYN, Abdullah- “Let us drive the racist whites into the sea in South Africa as we did them in Angola, Mozambique, Cabinda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Let us do it with passion.Stop the oncoming negrophoba violence… Cape Town and Joburg areas we need volunteers to get the messages over at the taxi ranks and other areas.

Nkosi Mlungisi Oros - “To these white fuckers that think we racist and we can’t move on and we can’t forgive and forget, I say let’s kill 4-million white people and piss on their food, then we’ll be even’

Masemola, Jeff – organising mass-protests in his new Azanian People’s Army units in Eastern Cape.

SANKARA, Chris (real name is Chris Mathebula) “As an Azanian People Liberaty Army combatant I can tell you now that I am super fit and ready to take our struggles in another level, are you? I was invited as a guest speaker in two different places in Soweto by Soweto Concerned Residents because of the failures of the so-called government by unservice deliveries. The masses are very angry and we will see more angry unservice delivery protest after this soccer session June 25 2010”.http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!chris.mathebula?v=wall&ref=search

Nkosi Mlungisi Oros - “To these white fuckers that think we racist and we can’t move on and we can’t forgive and forget, I say let’s kill 4-million white people and piss on their food, then we’ll be even’

Sanele Nene “It is time to start our xenophobic attacks on every foreigner in the country.’

Baloyi, Allot – “Tomorrow we start the xenophobic attacks. I’m still proudly South Africa. The world cup is over. We are going to steal the cup it ain’t leaving this country.’

Chibeleka, Tundo “Oxide” “Now let the xenophobia start”

Diphoko Tebogo Fonfo June 19 2010 ; “Let’s get rid of them I say. Am going to buy panga and get some old tires… let us end the world cup, ba-boele magabone, who is from Alexandra xenophobic?

HOSSAYN, Abdullah- “Let us drive the racist whites into the sea in South Africa as we did them in Angola, Mozambique, Cabinda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Let us do it with passion. Stop the oncoming negrophoba violence… Cape Town and Joburg areas we need volunteers to get the messages over at the taxi ranks and other areas.

Above is Mdladlana Membathisi, the ruling troika’s current labour minister, who threatened 'a black revolution' if companies didn't stop hiring white workers under contracts in an attempt to get around the affirmative-action laws”. This ANC-initiated law bars all but just a few ‘whites’ from the labour market. He also publicly cursed Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille as a ‘witch’ during a speech at the unveiling of a monument – speaking only in his native language isiXhosa. In black African cultures people who are accused of being ‘witches’ often are publicly burned. Membathisi was quoted by Dispatch journalist Lubabalo Ngcukana as saying in isiXhosa:”Igqwirha iyohlala iligqwirha”, which, directly translated into English, means “a witch will remain a witch”. Mdladlana said a “witch” would never change and slammed the young black voters who voted for the DA in the recent polls. The attack by Mdladlana occurred at around the same time when Zille also was attacked publicly by ANC Youth League president Julius Malema – who called her a “racist little girl” saying: “She (Zille), the racist little girl, must remember that Zuma is her boss,” Malema said, according to Sapa.“Helen Zille must report to Zuma about the Western Cape … the racist girl has not won … all of them must call ‘President Zuma’, President,” Malema said. http://blogs.dispatch.co.za/dispatchnow/2009/05/04/helen-zille-a-witch-mdladlana/

source: Witchcraft and SA policingby Riekje Pilgrim: Leiden University African Studies Centre: On 24 January 2001, Tin-myne police were called to a local village where three elderly women were dragged from their homes by an angry mob and torched – accused of being witches responsible for killing three of the four children of local resident Pauline Monone – the children had been struck dead by lightning during a thunderstorm two weeks earlier. All three women were seriously burnt – one died enroute to hospital. This event was described as a ‘ritual sacrifice for the entire community’Witchcraft and Policing in South Africa:https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/1887/12920/2/ASC-075287668-076-01.pdf

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Kenny Leluma, influential president of the ANC-ruled Local Government Managers’ Association, said he “was beginning to hate all white people” and that ‘you never saw white people living in shacks…’ ‘whites must leave South Africa…’

as quoted in The EP Herald by journalists Neil and Janine Oelofse:oelofsen@avusa.co.za:‘ He (Leluma) asked why he should resign from Bitou in order to help Ventersdorp. ( ratepayers objected to having to pay him a double-salary). Leluma commented that ‘only the Democratic Alliance was making a “big issue” out of his deployment and that nobody in Bitou had complained when the central government had pledged R1,2-billion for development in the Garden Route municipality. In an emotional tirade, Leluma was also quoted as saying that “whites” wanted to see the ANC fail: “I have had enough. Every day. I cannot keep answering these questions ... I am honestly starting to hate white people. They are not in this country to build. You never see whites living in shacks, and we will go and help those people who need help. Honestly, I am starting to agree with those who feel the whites must leave South Africa and go to Europe or even Australia. If residents were not happy with the way the ANC ran Plettenberg Bay, they should “vote us out”, Leluma said. http://www.epherald.co.za/gardenroute/article.aspx?id=471215.

KILL THE BOERE KILL THE FARMER

This ANC- ‘struggle-slogan” above calls for the murder of all whites – i.e. “Boers” – and is still widely chanted in South Africa today. When the words Kill the Farmer are added, they call specifically for the murder of all Afrikaner ‘whites’.

Boer is a genetic term used by black South Africans to indicate all whites – not solely for Afrikaner agrculturalists. The ANC-slogan: ‘Kill the Boere Kill the farmer ‘was officially chanted by Nelson Mandela and every one of his followers during the ‘struggle against apartheid’ before 1994. And while it was 'officially declared hate speech' in 2006 by the SA Human Rights Commission – it stil in 2010, is widely chanted and used at many public rallies by pro-ANC members specifically. In a macabre displaythis slogan also was painted in the blood of two Afrikaner victims on the walls of a homestead in the Free State on March 6 2009 – where Odendaalsrust farm residents Alice and her daughter Helen Lotter, 77 and 57 years old and both frail – were subjected to hours of excruciating torture: glass shards were stabbed into their vaginas and anuses, one of the women’s breasts were partially sliced off while she was still alive, and then they were slowly strangled in six-hours of torture. One of the women survived but died of her trauma in hospital later. This slogan thus clearly has a powerful effect in South Africa: more than 3700 (mostly Afrikaans-speaking) rural residents have been murdered since 1987 in such vicious attacks on South African homesteads and peri-urban smallholdings. Over the past three years especially that same slogan is often also heard being shouted against Afrikaner victims while they are being attacked by armed black male gangs in suburbean areas, the victims report.

Can whites still get fair trials in South Africa with such biased black judges? – TWO EXAMPLES

Above: Northern CapeJudge Frans Kgomo, whose Supreme Court guilty-ruling in the murder-trial of an Afrikaner was quashed by a unanimous bench of the Supreme Court of Appeals in Bloemfontein in 2009 -- which had ruled that Kgomo had shown 'extreme anti-Afrikaner racial prejudice' and had thus unduly influenced the course of the white man's murder trial . Five of the Supreme Court of appeal court's judges, led by Judge Nathan Ponnan, ruled unanimously that Judge Kgomo's approach to the Afrikaner defendant Joseph le Grange's murder trial was "certainly suggestive of one who has certain preconceived biases and allows those biases to affect his judgment". Judge Kgomo, who had been put forward by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) as a possible Constitutional Court justice post and at this time, was serving as an acting Supreme Court of Appeal judge, had in their unanimous view, “breached the most primary canons of good judicial behaviour" and “virtually taken over as a prosecutor in the case’, they said. This judge ‘s previous rulings also now are causing the widespread anglication of many northern Cape schools – a region which still is primarily Afrikaans-speaking. http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-10-27-concourt-post-still-not-filled

Above is Pretoria High Court judgeNkola “F..k the Boer’ Motata – who on September 2 2009 was found guilty by the Johannesburg Magistrate’s court of drunk driving: his recorded anti-white curses made international headlines when they were extensively aired during the two-year-long; frequently postponed trial. Magistrate Desmond Nair found that the five audio recordings together with the many photographs taken of the Pretoria High Court judge after he ‘d crashed his Jaguar into a Hurlingham Johannesburg wall ‘showed that he was driving under the influence’ of alcohol. "If a picture tells a thousand words, then audio recordings of this kind tell 10 000 more," the magistrate said in the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court during his summary. "The decision to prosecute judge Motata has been vindicated," said state prosecutor Zaais van Zyl. The judge had created a racist incident after he crashed into the perimeter wall of a Hurlingham property on January 6, 2007 started cursing the white owner with very racist language and also verbally abused black female officers who tried to have him blood-tested and arrested. This judge could easily have allowed his clearly anti-white racist bias to influence him while adjudicating at Pretoria High Court trials in which white defendants were involved. http://www.themercury.co.za/?fSectionId=&fArticleId=nw20080702114432512C475215

More hate-speech: top picture: demonstrators from the Landless Peoples Movement expressed their wishes as to what they wished 'whites to do’ (go dig a hole) at a public rally; and below, an unnamed official from the SASCO student movement writes a poster urging fellow-blacks to kill whites – at an anti-Afrikaner student rally at the University of the Free Ste. (“Boer” is the generic term used by black South Africans for all whites – not only farmers. The term was originally coined by the murdered communist Chris Hani.) In the video below, ex-pres Nelson Mandela and his cohorts including Ronnie Kasrells solemnly sing a hymn at a romrade’s graveside after the end of apartheid, after 1994 -- in which they still pledge to ‘kill all the whites…’

Nelson Mandela pledging to kill all the whites http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcOXqFQw2hc&feature=player_embedded

September 21 2009 PRETORIA. The state-run SA Airways’ technical department was accused of ‘trying to sweep a serious racism complaint under the carpet’, said trade union Solidarity spokesman Jaco Kleynhans."A black employee hurled racist remarks ‘in an insulting and racist manner’ at another employee in August this year, saying that he ‘could not stand white people and also could not stand working with white people’," said Kleynhans in a statement. Solidarity criticised the company's decision not to take disciplinary action against this black employee, although according to SAA technical’s own discliplinary code, a charge of racism is grounds for immediate suspection… The union said it had granted the SAA Technical department ‘s management a three day time period to take "the correct disciplinary action", but the employee in question was only ‘warned about his remarks and management now regarded the issue as concluded.” "These statements were aimed directly and in an insulting and racist manner at the person's white colleague and white people in general... It is nothing less than blatant racism." Shortly after the incident, the trade union member submitted a grievance to the employer, but ‘the employer decided not to follow the disciplinary procedures, as prescribed for complaints about racist behaviour’, Kleynhans said. "Management reiterated to Solidarity that the member is in fact ‘entitled to taking the matter further internally, but this is meaningless," Kleynhans said. “The member had already tackled the correct internal procedure, but management did not follow the correct disciplinary route and was now trying to "sweep a serious case of racism under the carpet". . –Sapahttp://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=15&art_id=nw20090921151434280C649175

JOHANNESBURG IN THE 1970s DURING APARTHEID:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gm7IzfqWos&feature=related

JOHANNESBURG NOW – UNDER THE ANC-REGIME

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEOFt5F-gpk&feature=related

The new threats of (black-on-black) xenophobic attacks in South Africa – August 2010

August 28 2010 - In 2008, xenophobic attacks broke out across over South Africa, starting in the town of Alexandria on May 12.(2) Although the country has struggled with xenophobia throughout its history, this event shook both South Africans and the international scene. After the end of apartheid in the 1990s and the new era of a multicultural society living in peaceful coexistence, this type of open conflict based on ethnic belongings rocked the image of a new South Africa. Some commentators have even gone as far as to claim that "South Africans, post-apartheid, have developed an aggressive and chauvinistic nationalism."(3)

The looming threat of xenophobia persists, and reports have been received of foreign nationals being threatened by violence after the soccer world cup in June 2010.(4) On 20 July 2010, foreign nationals were attacked in Kya Sands, Johannesburg.(5) These attacks were said to be motivated by xenophobia.(6) Looking at the wave of attacks that took place in 2008 and events of July 2010, it is necessary for the Government to act to avoid similar attacks in the future.

Xenophobia is often defined as "an unreasonable fear, distrust, or hatred of strangers, foreigners, or anything perceived as foreign or different."(7)

When discussing xenophobia in South Africa, it is important to bring in the concept of ethnicity. "Ethnicity is an aspect of social relationship between agents who consider themselves as culturally distinctive from members of other groups with whom they have a minimum of regular interaction."(8)

In other words it is a social relationship that does not require regular interaction or people knowing each other. What they need to know is that they come from the same social group and that this social group is distinct from the ‘others'. This ethnic group is able to socially construct a distinct identity based on shared memories and myths, a common shared history that sets them apart from ‘others'. The ethnic identity becomes an ‘imagined community'.(9) It is the emotions combined with shared memories and myths that make ethnicity, and thus xenophobia such powerful instruments. In the case of xenophobia in South Africa, ethnicity is used as a marker to scapegoat certain groups for the problems found in struggling areas.

Xenophobia is in many cases linked to conflict. It is linked to the sense that ethnicity is used as a marker to target groups who are blamed for the problems in a given society. It thus becomes xenophobia, as it is the ethnicity of the group that the locals fear will damage their future of a better life. The following quote gives an indication of how xenophobia, ethnicity and conflict are linked:

Ethnic conflict is not caused directly by inter-group differences, "ancient hatreds" and centuries-old feuds, or the stresses of modern life within a global economy, nor were ethnic passions, long bottled up by repressive communist regimes, simply uncorked by the end of the Cold War.

We argue instead that intense ethnic conflict is most often caused by collective fears of the future. As groups begin to fear for their safety, dangerous and difficult-to-resolve strategic dilemmas arise that contain within them the potential for tremendous violence.(10)

In the case of South Africa, the link between xenophobia and conflict is the collective fear of a struggling local population for the future, as revealed in the work of Lake and Rothschild.(11)

The country is struggling with a high level of unemployment and this, combined with a high influx of refugees and migrant workers, will often lead to disturbances amongst the local population who are at a low income level.(12)

Unemployment at 25.2%

In South Africa, the effect of this becomes dramatic as the job market is strained, with official numbers indicating unemployment to be at 25.2% in the 1st quarter of 2010.(13) The foreigners thus become an easy target for problems within society, such as high unemployment. They become competitors in an already struggling economic system. The Government in South Africa has not done much to stop these allegations; instead they have used them as a way of shifting blame from its own failure to address the causes for the social stress.(14) If the threat of xenophobic-related violence and stigma is not dealt with, the consequences may be grave.

Xenophobia in South Africa

In May 2008, local residents in working class areas throughout South Africa attacked foreign black workers due to xenophobia.(15) Studies done by the Consortium for Migrants and Refugees in South Africa in 2009 found that the foreigners were still under threat of violence and that little was done to address the causes of the attacks.(16) A similar wave of violence has not been seen since 2008, but a threat of future attacks still exists. Foreigners, and shop owners in particular, are still being threatened and beaten.(17)

After the soccer world cup of June 2010, reports have been received of foreign nationals being threatened by violence.(18) On 20 July 2010, 16 people, most of them foreign nationals, were attacked in Kya Sands, Johannesburg.(19) After the attacks, the army was deployed to the area, despite Gauteng Provincial Community Safety Minister Khabisi Mosunkutu declaring they were not needed. The attacks ranged from assault and house breaking to theft, which ended in five people being taken to hospital.(20) No incidents have been reported since the attacks in Kya Sands, but the situation is being monitored closely.

The problem with the threats of xenophobic attacks and the attacks in Kya Sands is that they come from different groups in South Africa.(21)

This is a problem as it showcases how society in general is convinced that the foreigners are to blame for all social stress found in South Africa. To make matters worse, several of the people making the threats believe they have the support of senior political leaders and thus making it socially and politically acceptable.(22)

This is evidence of a society that is not taking the consequences of this situation seriously and that it is damaging towards the international reputation of the country. Even more grave, however, is the neglect of facing the root causes of the social stress. By blaming the foreigners for all the problems, the real causes are not dealt with and thus the problems will not be solved.

Patrick Bond argued that "Allowing immigrants to be blamed for crime and joblessness is a ‘scapegoat' strategy for the government's failure to address root causes of the social stress from mass unemployment and housing shortages."(23)

A problem in South African society and politics is the accusation that the immigrants are to blame for the economic situation, the high level of unemployment and other problems facing struggling communities.(24) Since the violent xenophobic attacks in May 2008, little has been done to find the cause for the attacks and even less has been done to ensure it will not happen again.(25) If the Government and civil society do not take the situation seriously, there is no guarantee it will not happen again. If the situation is not dealt with it may continue to harm tourism, the country's international reputation and geopolitical interests.

The real issue that needs to be addressed is that of social stress - at a Governmental, regional and local level. Blaming all the ills on foreigners will not solve unemployment and crime levels. Instead the root causes must be identified and adequately addressed. Until then, the looming threat of xenophobia still threatens South Africa, and incidents such as the one in Kya Sands may escalate and spread across the country.

August 28 2010 - Dear Ms Storø - As a retired Sunday Times of Johannesburg journalist, I have had oceans of time and thus have been monitoring the SA facebook pages on the subject of xenophobia - which you seem to interpret primarily as black South African ethnic groups targetting black foreign African ethnic groups.

However it has probably escaped your attention that there is an overwhelming amount of hatespeech and calls to kill all the whites in South Africa on the Facebook pages of groups like Blackwash, the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania, the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA), the ANC and similar political groups. This is really getting way out of hand in fact and is also being followed up by direct action: a group of people in South Africa started monitoring the attacks on 'whites' from May 1 2010 just before the start of the World Cup 2010, and recorded an unprecedented number of often very cruel armed attacks - way out of proportion to their very small representation in the South African population. http://www.farmitracker.com/reports

I also have for many years maintained a name-list of murdered white agrarians and smallholders in South Africa. Initially I kept a log in my car when working for the Sunday Times because I was often sent out to report on farm-attacks, and in the time before the internet it was essential to carry such statistics along when writing a story about it. I continued this log in retirement mainly because the South African Police Service stopped maintaining a 'stand-alone' list of these so-named 'farm-attacks' nor are they maintaining seperate lists of any of the deaths caused by xenophobic attacks. ( http://www.saps.gov.za click on documents for the stats)

The death toll thus far on South African farms up to August 25 2010: 3,702 people. That does not include the large number of black female tribal land-owners who are murdered, usually torched to death with their female relatives, whenever they insist on occupying their inherited tribal land-sites. I maintain a seperate list of these female farm-murder victims on the same page because the modus-operandus of the farm-attacks is identical: white farmers are also often torched or mutilated and tortured extensively, just as these black-female farm victims are. My latest list of names: http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2010/08/farm-murder-death-list-1994-2010_26.html

The international community lately is also taking note of these extraordinarily cruel murders of 'whites' (the vast majority of the attack-victims are Afrikaans-speaking whites) on farms and smallholdings, with the Unrepresented Nations and People's Organisation in The Hague recently issuing a call for an international investigation.

Dr Gregory Stanton, founder of Genocide Watch, was also interviewed on TV, warned about what Stanton, who is a liberal academic in the USA who was a foreign monitor of the SA elections in 1994, referred to as an 'approaching Boer Genocide':

Perhaps with so many foreign experts now also growing increasingly concerned about the xenophobic attacks but also over the growing threats of a 'white genocide' in South Africa - together with the massive increase in hatespeech targetting whites in South Africa, you might also want to include these events in your area of expertise?

It's truly alarming to me that at the Steve Biko Hospital last week, a striking health-worker was carrying a printed poster produced by the POPCRU trade union, showing a picture of a white baby's foot, and underneath it: "We don't care'. The man behind her bears a striking resemblance to Mr Mfundo Dlungwane, a public servant who wrote on 25 May 2010 on Facebook:

This growing hatespeech also has a powerful effect on the Afrikaner community in South Africa in particular - and they are becoming increasingly suspicious of the ANC-leadership 's intentions and many Afrikaans communities are also beginning to distrust the SA Police Service - while this community has always been very law-abiding due to their Calvinist background.

Leading Afrikaners now often refer to themselves as having become 'strangers' in 'their own land'. Their rapid impoverishment due to their being barred from the job-market under the BEE-laws also leads to massive resentment of their present situation: more than 650,000 of the 3-million Afrikaners now are homeless and living in often very unsafe, little tented squatter-camps; and these 'poor whites' are moreover, very consistently refused access to any government benefits to help them survive, including government food-stamps and public housing. Only two private charities in South Africa help them with daily food aid: the Freedom Front Plus' charity Volkshulp 2000, and the Solidarity Trade Union's Helpende Hand (http://www.helpinghand.co.za) charity, which has more than 600 branches run by unpaid volunteers countrywide to help these poor Afrikaner families. Their living conditions are incredibly dismal.

I thought it may interest you to know just a few of these details of 'that other kind of xenophobia' and the causes for it. To me it seems inevitable that, with the extremely poor and weak leadership right now, South Africa is heading for a full-scale race-war with impoverished communities of all ethnic groups battling each other for scarce resources: especially the clean-water supplies which now all are becoming very polluted with heavy chemicals and human waste mainly due to the ANC-regime's fraudulent rule and inefficiency, but also for (increasingly expensive) food, the shrinking number of jobs and housing. This week alone, the agricultural sector announced the loss of 61,000 unskilled jobs last year: the few remaining commercial farmers (no more than 20,000: there were 85,000 in 1994) are mechanising fast now -- in order to keep up with the growing demand for local staple-foods.

The term "genocide" was coined by legal scholar Raphael Lemkin in 1943, writing:

'Generally speaking, genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation, except when accomplished by mass killings of all members of a nation. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actionsaiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.

The objectives of such a plan would be the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of personal security, liberty, health, dignity and lives of the members of such groups... '